FOLLOW YOUR BLISS. That's all there is to it, unless your idea of joy and fulfillment involves Robbery, Vandalism, Kidnapping, Torture, Rape, Murder and doing your level best to destroy the reputation of others "just for the hell of it." (:-x

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That should depend in what "feats" you have in mind, Jersey. These folks are all doing things they apparently LOVE to do. None of them believes in self-flagellation as a desirable way of life. None of them appears to have any Masochistic tendencies whatsoever.

It all depends, as the saying goes, on "what floats your boat."

By the way, not all the featured feats have been physical. I particularly admire the man who taught himself to read past the age of ninety after a long life of illiteracy. Not only did he become LITERATE at that advanced age, he wrote -- and published -- BOOK.

So why don't you set a goal to read H.G. Wells' Outline of History, or Gibbons Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire -- or Winston Churchill's A History of the English Speaking Peoples for that matter -- or better yet all THREE. It could only improve your outlook on life, and serve to give you a tremendous increase your understanding of Reality.

If not that, why not teach yourself to be literate in Hebrew, Greek, Russian or at least one of the Oriental Language? ;-)

Sitting down all day, and doing nothing but expressing dissatisfaction with life puts us on the express route to The Grave.

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